The select few of us around here who will watch anything from Joe Wright nearly unconditionally should be fairly excited about this news. While we love Wright and his excellent sense of period film making (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice), this will be a welcome departure for fans and mainstream movie goers alike.

As Indian Summer (starring Cate Blanchett) fell by the wayside due to budget issues and a sense that the public isn’t too into period drama pieces at the moment, Wright switched gears completely and is going for a straight up action picture with the likes of something as tantalizing as La Femme Nikita meets Bourne.

from Heat Vision

The story centers on a 14-year-old Eastern European girl who has been raised by her father to be a cold-blooded killing machine. She connects with a French family, forms a friendship with their daughter and goes through the pangs of adolescence. When the girl is dragged back to her father’s world and discovers that she was bred as a killing machine in a CIA prison camp, she must fight her way to a free life.

With “legendary” directors such as Danny Boyle and Alfonso Cuarón originally interested in the idea but ultimately passing on it, I’m super interested to see how well Joe Wright will make the transition from tears to blood. Keira Knightley to star?